App Tamer 1.0.2

App Tamer tames applications that are chewing up excessive CPU time and battery life on your Mac. Its unique "AutoStop" feature will stop an application when you switch away from it, and then automatically restart it when you click back to it. App Tamer includes an attractive and clear user interface for managing your running applications. It shows the average percentage of your processor(s) being used by each app, and graphically displays a history of CPU usage. You can easily enable AutoStop for any application, as well as change its processing priority in OS X.

REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.0.2:
App Tamer is now more efficient so it it consumes less CPU power itself.
The status menu in the menubar now shows CPU usage and savings.
Choosing 'Disable AutoStop' from the menubar menu will ask how long to disable it. AutoStop will be automatically reenabled after that time has elapsed.
App Tamer now automatically determines if an application is a 'helper' for a game or other application, and will keep it awake or put it to sleep along with its parent application.
App Tamer will no longer stop iTunes if it is playing music or a movie.
Status alerts have been added to make the Details drawer more understandable.
You can relaunch applications from the Application Manager's contextual menus.
When switching between accounts using Fast User Switching, App Tamer will automatically disable itself when you switch away from the account in which it's running and will turn itself back on when you return.

Bug fixes
Problems detecting downloads have been fixed. App Tamer will not stop browsers when they are downloading files.
OS X's spindump utility is now turned off when App Tamer starts up. This corrects performance problems and stuttering that some users have reported.
App Tamer no longer automatically opens its window when you bring it to the front.
If App Tamer is set as a login item with the 'hide' checkbox turned on, it will now be properly hidden after login.
Under Mac OS 10.5, kernel_task will no longer include all idle cpu time - its %CPU value is now reported correctly.
Problems with incorrect window dimming and undimming have been fixed.
When dimming the Finder's windows, the Desktop will no longer dim along with its windows.
Corrected a problem which caused windows to brighten and then dim again while apps were stopped in the background.
When App Tamer isn't frontmost, the on/off switch is disabled so clicking to bring App Tamer to the front doesn't accidentally change the setting.
The 'awake' period is now longer after the computer wakes from sleep (10 seconds instead of 5).
App Tamer now knows details about Parallels Desktop so that its background processes are properly stopped and started along with it.
Added application-specific warnings for Default Folder X.

Geek Features
There is now a manual preference option to hide applications when they're AutoStopped. To turn it on, quit App Tamer and then use this command in Terminal:
defaults write com.stclairsoft.AppTamer hideWhenStopped 1
To turn the feature back off, use
defaults write com.stclairsoft.AppTamer hideWhenStopped 0
When window dimming is turned on, the brightness of the dimmed windows can be modified with a defaults setting. Run this command in Terminal (the default value is 65% - lower percentages are darker, higher percentages are brighter):
defaults write com.stclairsoft.AppTamer dimPercentage 65